Parks and Recreation: Final Season Premiere and Finale Dates Revealed

NBC has announced the premiere date -- along with the series finale date -- for the final season of Parks and Recreation.

The seventh season will start on Tuesday, January 13 with two back-to-back episodes starting at 8 PM ET. The series will then air in two-episode blocks every week on Tuesday, ending in an hour-long finale on Tuesday, February 24 after The Voice.

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NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a statement, "Mike Schur and Amy Poehler, along with their incredible producers, cast, and crew, have given us one of the great television comedies of all time, and we’re inordinately proud of Parks and Recreation. In an effort to give it the send-off it deserves, we wanted to ‘eventize’ the final season to maximize the impact of these episodes, which really do take the show to a new level. The highly-anticipated one-hour finale will air behind The Voice in order to lead the largest audience possible into what promises to be a very special hour of television.”

Steve Watts is a freelance writer who isn't sure how they can top last season's finale. You can read more of his keen insights by following him on Twitter and IGN.